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- Morton
One Room School Historical Museum
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- Morton
School Museum
- Your
Class Visit to Morton School !
- (A Typical
Morton Class Day Schedule)
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- Students
Arrive on the Bus at about 9:30 am
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time of arrival can be adjusted to suit your time frame.)
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- The
students are greeted by Our School Marms on their arrival. They
are asked to form a line at the rear entrance to the school and
our school marm explains how students long ago had to "Make
Their Manners" upon entering the school house. The students
then enter the building and participate in opening exercises
lasting about 10 minutes.
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- These
exercises are derived from One Room School class programs dating
back 100 years.
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- As
a group the class:
- Reads
a Bible verse from the blackboard,
- Recites
the Lord's Prayer,
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- Recites
the Pledge of Allegience to the Flag,
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sings "America"
- (Our
program is historically authentic, but also entirely voluntary.)
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- 9:40
am
- One
of Our School Marms will present a very short school history
including:
- What
was it like to attend a one room school ?
- What
facilities and supplies were available ?
- What
were the students like ?
- What
was the class routinue ?
- What
about school discipline ?
- What
books were used ?
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- Where
did they get their drinking water ?
- What
did the students have for lunch ?
- What
were the games and toys that were popular?
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- 10:00
am
- Reading,
Writing, and Spelling Demonstrations
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- We'll
be using the recitation bench and "blab" school techniques
as they were widely used during the period we are recreating.
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- "Their
stories were pretty good !"
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class will be divided into groups, and using a rotating method,
each group will use their desks, the recitation bench, and writing
tables to gain an understanding of how a large number of students
of differing grade levels were taught in the
- typical
single room environment.
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- Small
group activities = lots of fun and learning too !
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- Recitation
Bench (reading)
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Schoolmarm presents each new word (defines if necessary), which
the students repeat and spell together. The group reads aloud
together, a story that has been selected from one of the McGuffey
Readers. A brief discussion of the story follows and if time
allows, and depending on the age of the students, sentences in
the story may be used to point out correct punctuation, capitalization,
and grammar.
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- "This
is different, and it's fun to see how they did it. "
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- Writing
Table Activity (penmanship)
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students will take their copy books (supplied) to the table.
They will dip stick pens into bottles of ink and use them to
copy "The Golden Rule" in their books. They will also
practice the alphabet (upper and lower case) in either cursive
or manuscript.
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- Desk
Work
- Students
will read the assigned story out loud at their own pace (blab
school). They will write the new words from the story in their
copy books and practice new words on their slates. They may look
through their book and read other stories quietly.
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- "Well,
their spelling words aren't much different from ours".
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- 10:45
am
- Spelldown
- The
whole class participates using words from the previous reading.
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- 11:15
am
- Math
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- Students
will be given examples of oral story problems and they will all
participate in a continous math problem.
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- Slates
will be used for all the calculations.
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- 11:30
am
- Lunch
,,,(bring
your own)
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- "So,
did you get some neat stuff in your lunch too ? "
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afterward, a choice of Games !
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- The
games could include:
- "London
Bridge is Falling Down"
- "Annie
Over"
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- "The
Maypole"
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- "Drop
the Hanky"
- Or
inside games if the weather is bad...
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- 12:30
pm
- Science,
Geography, and History
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- The
schoolmarm will demonstrate how these subjects were studied by
all the students despite such a wide range of student ages and
skills.
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- The
techniques will include:
- Experiments,
- Demonstrations,
- Memorizing,
- Pictures
& Diagrams,
- Dramatizations,
- Shared
Books,
- Maps
& Globes
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- 1:00
pm
- Craft
Work
- Students
will participate in the construction of a period craft.
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- Types
of crafts that may be taught include:
- Samplers,
- Autograph
Books,
- Board
Games,
- Candle
Making,
- Paper
Folding,
- Stenciling,
- Rope
Twisting.
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- Students
will take their craft with them when they return to the bus.
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- 1:45
pm
- Clean-Up
- Summarize
and prepare to leave.
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1:55 pm
- Class
Group Picture
- Outside
before boarding the bus. (inside if the weather is bad)
- 2:00
pm
- Dismiss
to Bus
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- To
schedule a class visit please email us.
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- Or
write to us at:
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- Morton
One Room School Historical Society
- Post
Office Box 148, Shelby, Ohio 44875
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- Copyright
© 2004 - 2007 Morton One Room School Historical Society.
Inc.
